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With her new album Blown Away in stores next week, 2012 is already shaping up to be a trophy year for Carrie Underwood – now in more ways than one.

When nominations were revealed for the 2012 CMT Music Awards on Monday, Underwood led the field with five nods.

Little Big Town, who is up for CMT Performance of the Year at the awards show, announced the nominees live on NBC’s Today show alongside the morning show’s host Hoda Kotb and guest co-host Willie Geist.

The vocal group will also perform on the fan-voted 2012 CMT Music Awards, which will air live June 6 from Nashville on CMT and CMT.com.

“Can you tell everyone to go vote for us now?” quipped the group’s Kimberly Schlapman.

Click to see a gallery of photos from the 2011 CMT Music Awards (this image of Jason Aldean and Ludacris: Larry McCormack/The Tennessean).

The CMT Music Awards were a one-two punch for country newlyweds Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert on Wednesday night, though neither of them was in the house to pick up the trophies. Shelton, who was in Los Angeles filming The Voice, was recognized for Male Video of the Year for his No. 1 “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking” and Best Web Video of the Year for “Kiss My Country (Expletive).” With two awards, he was the evening’s top winner.

“Oh my gosh, I can’t believe this, this is unbelievable,” Shelton said via satellite from his judge’s chair on The Voice. “I wish I could be there in Nashville today … I’m honored all you fans gathered together and voted me (for male video). I want to thank mostly all the fans, and oh my gosh, I can’t believe Shania (Twain) gave me an award.”

Lambert’s video for “The House that Built Me” won Female Video of the Year, but she wasn’t able to collect it because she was touring. Trey Fanjoy, who directed the videos for both “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking” and “The House The Built Me,” completed the Shelton/Lambert triumvirate, capturing the win in the Video Director the Year category.

Taylor Swift’s “Mine” won Video of the Year, the evening’s top award, at the fan-voted show. She delivered her acceptance speech from the stage during a show in Wisconsin.

“Did you hear that you guys?” she asked her audience. “Oh my gosh … I don’t even know what I did to deserve you guys, but you have made so many things in my life happen, and I just love you.”Continue reading →

The Band Perry accepts its USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year Award (photo: Larry McCormack/The Tennessean).

The Band Perry’s single “If I Die Young,” which won the USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year at Wednesday night’s CMT Music Awards at Bridgestone Arena, has been so successful that the group no longer thinks of the song as its own.

“We kind of feel like it belongs to the folks at this point,” lead singer Kimberly Perry told The Tennessean on the red carpet. “You know, we certainly wrote it, but it’s helped so many people.”
The group continued the sharing theme when it accepted the award during the show. “It takes a village to raise a band,” Perry told the audience.

The hit song has been in heavy rotation since being released over a year ago and it garnered the group two other CMT Award nominations: group video and video of the year.

The group won’t have much time to celebrate the win. It was scheduled to fly back to the West coast early Thursday morning to join back up with Tim McGraw’s tour. However, the group will be back in town by Sunday for its performance at LP Field as part of the CMA Music Festival.

“Welcome to the 2010 CMT Music Awards,” hollered Rock, opening an evening of non-traditional entertainment on the fan-voted awards show.

The awards portion of the evening featured no dominant force. Carrie Underwood was the only double-winner, and she won the night’s biggest prize of video of the year, for “Cowboy Casanova” as well as a CMT Performance of the Year trophy for the version of “Temporary Home” that she performed on CMT’s “Invitation Only” show. The other seven awards, all fan-voted, were given out to eight different winners (the “collaborative video” prize was shared between Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins for their “Hillbilly Bone” video).Continue reading →

The awards show, hosted by Kid Rock, will air live 7 p.m. June 9 on CMT from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. (Tickets are sold out.) The show will feature performances by Lambert, Lady Antebellum, Urban, Toby Keith and Underwood.

The nominees are a reflection of weeks-long fan voting at the network’s website. While the voting is now largely closed, fans are still asked to vote in the video of the year category (at vote.CMT.com) to narrow the field of 10 entertainers down to its final five nominees. The top five vote-getters will be announced at the beginning of the show, and fans can then go to CMT.com to cast their vote for the final winner. Take a look through the potential videos of the year HERE.